Yet another reason to buy/eat organic. Makes me sad about Scotland’s practice (if they still do it) because I always think (maybe mistakenly) that European environmental controls on food production are stricter.

It never dawned on me to think that Roundup would be used to “kill the crop” that was to be eaten.

I heard about this practice a few weeks ago and was appalled.

I just read there's higher than the allowed amounts of this stuff in many different oat products.

It is a big reason to buy organic!

When you say buy organic, do you mean "certified organic"?

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Is it any wonder that people are dying of cancer at an alarming rate! Seems like every day I hear of someone that has cancer.

The worst part is you think your eating healthy but really your not. Today while shopping I was so hungry for green grapes but stood there looking at them ( organic., so it said) and passed them up. When I see fruits and vegetables from other countries I shudder as who knows what chemicals are on them but we can't even trust our own country it seems.

Well, if it's harmful, my two eldest grandsons are doomed. Between the two of them, they probably eat one huge box each DAY!

Yes, I posted about this awhile back...along with this chart. Frightening stuff. It's one reason we make our own graham crackers and whole wheat bread out of organic flour now.

Saw the headlines the other day about them finding it in cereal. I didn't read the article though and had no idea.

marylmi -- I feel pretty much the same about not trusting the process. I don't know why anybody would not prefer to buy Certified Organic if they could afford it. Also, you may know that the budget for the FDA has been cut -- and even before that only a miniscule percentage of imports were checked. Pass inspection once and then there's no more checking.

Can't say I'm surprised. Our (as well as many countries') use of pesticides has risen for years; there has to be limit. My mom used to tell me I was foolish for buying organic fruit and veg (partly,) but when she grew up and made her way through adulthood far fewer pesticides were used.

Can you just imagine how much pesticides enter our bodies. Not only orally but how bout what can be absorbed thru the skin, nose, eyes from textiles that are all treated with pesticides before entering th US.

I did not know about this way of using Round-up! I am appalled. Aren't we all?

Mamapinky, once I bought a package of work gloves from a major hardware store. When I got home, I opened the package to use a pair. They all smelled as though they'd been saturated in insecticide. I set them aside. Coming back to them months later, they still smelled like that. I never did use those gloves.

Sad. cherries is one quick cereal that is gluten free for anone with celiac disease.

Couple organic Cheerios options.

https://www.naturespath.com/en-us/products/natures-path-foods/whole-os-cereal/

https://www.cascadianfarm.com/products/cereals/cereal/purely-o-s

Certified Organic farming is permitted to use 25 pesticides. We can't call certified organic healthier. We don't know that.

How many are allowed for traditional farms? I'll take the odds with organic, thanks. And I'll be requiring farmers and farmworkers to handle fewer toxic substances. And fewer workers in factories to manufacture toxic substances. And fewer toxins to dispose of, and on and on.

Most all of us are so far removed from the source of the food we eat it's not funny anymore. How can we possibly know if what we're buying and putting in our mouths is healthy for us, sustainable for the environment?

Best a person can do, I think, is to support our government's health and inspection programs, try to keep up with scientifically valid research, and most especially support your local farmers that you see with your own eyes as much as you can. In the grocery store, read the label and vote with your dollars, again as much as makes sense for you & your family.

Yes, and they've been finding it in breastmilk too. Big Agra, Big Pharma, etc., have way too much power.

I wonder how many home Roundup users got a heads-up with the recent lawsuit won by the groundskeeper. Certainly not everyone uses it properly. How many people do you think actually read the directions? I once knew someone who poured Roundup, hoping it would act as a pre-emergent weedkiller.

nickel_kg -- the government's inspection programs are run on a minimal budget. It may be better than China's -- who knows.

bleusblue2 -- yeah, our govt is imperfect but what else can we do? I don't have a personal lab (or the knowledge, lol) to conduct my own tests. I think/hope our govt programs are better than China's -- but they have concerned citizens too so they hopefully will catch up or exceed US standards someday.

I wish there *was* a practical answer.

The practical answer IS to vote for people who are not in the pocket of businesses who lobby to loosen regulations intended to protect us from these sorts of things!

Read today where Nature Valley must drop "Made with 100% Natural Whole Grain Oats" from its labeling because of the presence of glyphosate.